Fouling - Interesting observation..

[wipe_out]

Got back from my holiday in Cyprus (unfortunately non-boat holiday).. On the beach they had a rope with buoys to mark the swimming area.. The interesting thing what that I assume the rope had been there all summer but there was no fouling on the rope or the buoys.. I would have thought with the relatively still water and lots of direct sun that fouling would grow like crazy..

Also went to the new Karpaz Gate marina and it looked pretty clean in there too..

Maybe the growth doesn't like too much sun..

 

[Denis O]

My boat has just spent it's first summer in the water, moored at Komeno in Corfu so similar water and sunshine. Where the fender ropes lay in the water they go a dirty brown colour with marine growth, as do the 2 larger fenders that just touch the water.

My leg was also in a mess being an inboard and being unable to lift it clear of the water.

The Med has certainly not been kind to my boat although, thank the lord (or should I say Martin in Gouvia) for CopperCoat. The boats bum was free of everything except a little slime and 1 small barnacle right at the back.

 

[wipe_out]

Interesting.. So I wonder how what I saw had stayed so clean.. I can't imagine they clean it every couple of days (which is about how log it takes to start seeing growth on my boat in Brighton).. Anyway, just an observation..

 

[RupertW]

I've found the Adriatic very dead compared to Channel. We are planning to get our boat out of the water for the first time since 2010 when we bought it. We have had it scrubbed by a diver each June but now there is more hull than antifoul. Growth by next June is a bit of slime, no mussels, no barnacles, no long weed. Bizarrely we left our RIB in the water for 6 weeks in 2011 and it had 3-4 inch deep complete ecosystem which was awful and smelly to remove.